Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2"Leonard Woolf, aged twenty-four, went forth to help rule the British Empire. He returned home to London at thirty-one an older and wiser man. Soon afterward, he married Virginia Stephen. Growing is the story of the years in between, just before the growth of the Bloomsbury Group in London." -- Dust jacket. |
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... thing to counteract Voltaire . The mere fact that I had brought a dog with me - which had hardly if ever been done by a civil servant before — was well thought of and began to counteract Voltaire , and the two things , the one so ...
... thing to counteract Voltaire . The mere fact that I had brought a dog with me - which had hardly if ever been done by a civil servant before — was well thought of and began to counteract Voltaire , and the two things , the one so ...
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... things about primitive man . It is not their primitiveness that really appeals to me . It is partly their earthiness ... thing of the litheness and beauty of jungle animals . The Sinhalese especially tend to have subtle and supple minds ...
... things about primitive man . It is not their primitiveness that really appeals to me . It is partly their earthiness ... thing of the litheness and beauty of jungle animals . The Sinhalese especially tend to have subtle and supple minds ...
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... thing I liked about the Sinhalese was their religion . I am essentially and fundamentally irreligious , as I have explained in Sowing , but , if one must have a religion , Buddhism seems to me superior to all other religions . When I ...
... thing I liked about the Sinhalese was their religion . I am essentially and fundamentally irreligious , as I have explained in Sowing , but , if one must have a religion , Buddhism seems to me superior to all other religions . When I ...
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